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W Blijdensteijn

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Years covered: 1851


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W BLIJDENSTEIJN
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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. H Kloos vs W Blijdensteijn  0-1351851AmsterdamC38 King's Gambit Accepted

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Feb-06-08  Karpova: <5408. Dutch players

Rod Edwards (Victoria, BC, Canada) asks about two nineteenth-century Dutch players. Firstly, he quotes to us various sources which refer to ‘B.W. Blijdenstein’ and ‘W.J. Blijdensteijn’ in connection with the Amsterdam, 1851 tournament, while the following have been found regarding The Hague, 1873: ‘Blijdenstein’, ‘Blydenstein’, ‘B.W. Blijdensteijn’, ‘B.W. Blijdenstein’ and ‘A.H. van Blijdenstein’. A similarly-named player also participated in Amsterdam, 1874. Our correspondent notes that Jeremy Gaige’s Chess Personalia lists only A.H. van Blijdenstein (died in Rotterdam on 20 March 1920) and that there exists a book "Benjamin Willem Blijdenstein (1780-1857) Damauteur en damproblemist" by K.W. Kruijswijk (Rosmalen, 1988).>

Source: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... Book cover: http://www.sport-vrijetijd.info/Pri...

Feb-11-08  Karpova: News: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

The family:

1. Benjamin Willem Blijdenstein (1780-1857) was interested in Chess and draughts and wrote book on draughts.

2. Benjamin Willem Blijdenstein (born in Enschede on 18 February 1811 and died on 21 May 1866) was Nr.1's son (13 siblings) and married in 1836. He's the father of three children. It seems as if he was was one of the prize-winners at Amsterdam, 1851.

3. Benjamin Willem Blijdenstein (1839-1914) is the son of Nr.2. He might have participated in The Hague, 1873 (he was the joint winner with Gifford) and Amsterdam, 1874.

Feb-11-08  sneaky pete: Number 2 (4th place in the Amsterdam 1851 tournament) is "W. J. Blijdenstein from Enschede" (Amsterdam schaakstad, 1982). B. J. Blijdenstein (number 3) took 3rd place in a small Amsterdam tournament in 1870 (1. Kloos 2. De Lelie).

The Oxford Encyclopedia has 6 games of "W. J. Blijdenste<ij>n" from the 1851 tournament, taken from an 1852 collection, so we're not even sure about the spelling of the family name.

The 1908 game against Lasker may be from number 3, but may just as well have been played by someone completely different.

Feb-11-08  sneaky pete: I've read some short internet biographies of Benjamin Willem the 2nd and the 3rd, family name Blijdenstein, and found no trace of anything as frivolous as playing chess or even participating in chess tournaments. These men were respectable bankers and politicians.

http://www.wieiswieinoverijssel.nl/... http://www.tgooi.info/hilversum/pin...

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